BUSTLE-DBUS-MONITOR(1)

💅 BUSTLE-DBUS-MONITOR 💅

okay bestie, so this one lives in the General Commands Manual section and it's lowkey one of my faves, come sit with me 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

bustle — the D-Bus visualiser, aka the glow-up your debugging session has been waiting for 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

bustle logfile

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so, Bustle is a tool that charts your D-Bus calls and gives you timing info on them, so you can do profiling and debugging like a main character. ✨ It exists to replace the whole cursed experience of reading the cryptic little output of dbus-monitor — like, no more squinting at nonsense, we simply do not do that anymore 💀

Calls get displayed using Message Sequence Charts, which is a genuinely iconic and succinct way of showing entities and their interactions over time. It's giving clarity, it's giving timeline, it's giving we can actually see what's happening 🔥

You can generate a dump using bustle-pcap and then pass its filename as an argument to this command, and boom — you're visualising dbus calls you saved earlier. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

👑 AUTHOR 👑

bustle was written by Will Thompson <will.thompson@collabora.co.uk> — king behaviour, honestly 👑

This manual page was written by Chris Lamb <lamby@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others). Slay, and also very generous of them ngl 💜

and that's the whole page, bestie!! no cap, every single detail is in there 🧚

mwah — this cutie dropped on January 8, 2009, brought to you by BUSTLE-DBUS-MONITOR(1) ✨💖🎀🦋